Build file-based theme inheritance module in Nuxt

Written by Filip Rakowski

We are used to certain ways of reusing code. Usually it happens through libraries and components with strictly defined APIs but sometimes thats not enough. Sometimes we want to reuse our whole codebase in a way that lets us adjust it to a special event like Black Friday or just make a slightly different version of our website for a specific country. In cases like that, we usually have very different needs, and being limited by previously defined extension points could make such tasks painful or even impossible.

Being able to automatically inherit all “standard”, unchanged files from a single source of truth and only adding what we want to change when making a new version of our website could drastically reduce the amount of maintained code. In this article, I will show you how to make all of that possible in Nuxt.js in a relatively simple way.

State Management with Composition API

Written by Filip Rakowski

Some time ago I wrote an article about state management patterns in Vue. You may or may not know but I’ve been working with Composition API intensively for the past few months while building a new version of Vue Storefront and I thought it might be a good idea to share some of my learnings. The topic I found really interesting is how using Composition API has changed the way I’m managing my application state - both local and global. If you’re curious how different it is from the current mainstream approaches make yourself a coffee and feed your curiosity because today I will share with you how to use Composition API as a replacement for known state management patterns and libraries 🙂

9 reasons to use Gridsome for your next Vue application

Written by Jose Garrido

What is Gridsome?

Gridsome is an open source VueJS framework used for building static generated sites. The main focus of Gridsome is that the final website will always be fast, really fast. This is achieved by adding performant features such as code splitting, asset optimization, progressive images, and link prefetching by default. With a Gridsome website you’ll get almost perfect page speed scores which is very important for SEO purposes and user experience nowadays.

Vue 3 Beta is released – Learn the latest news

Written by Alex Kyriakidis

Yesterday Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, announced the first beta version of Vue 3.

Vue 3 comes with great performance improvements and focuses on making developing enterprise applications even smoother and faster. Additionally, it introduces new components and developer-experience focused changes, to delight Vue.js developers of any kind.

What you will love in Vue 3 [Video]

Written by Alex Kyriakidis

In early 2020, there is a lot of discussion and anticipation for Vue 3. Thus I wanted to help the community prepare for the next version of our beloved framework.

Vue 3 brings in a lot of exciting features and changes. By the time of writing, Vue 3 is in alpha version and we expect a beta soon!

I gave a talk, "What you'll love in Vue 3", at Vue Amsterdam and VueConf US earlier this year, about the new features I am the most excited about.

Deep dive into Vue state management

Written by Filip Rakowski

Every Vue application has its state but managing it simply and predictably can be hard. There are many approaches to state management in modern front-end development and it’s easy to get lost in all the available patterns and libraries.

In this post I’ll try to go deep into state management patterns and tools as well as the reasoning behind their existence. This article is very in-depth but I guarantee you that there is at least one thing that you will learn from it.

Optimizing third-party libraries

Part 4 of 4 in our Vue.js Performance series.
Written by Filip Rakowski

It’s been a while since we published last part of Vue Performance series. I hope you had a chance to apply everything you already learned in your projects and make them faster! If you have read previous articles you already know perfectly how lazy loading works, how to code-split routes and components, and how to manage asynchronous loading in elegant way but we still haven’t covered the aspect that influences bundle size the most - third party libraries. This article is all about them!

How to Load Third-Party Scripts in Nuxt.js

Written by Alexander Lichter

Introduction

Almost every modern web application is using some kind of dependency, even besides the preferred JavaScript framework.

While most of the dependencies are available through NPM, many of them also provide a link to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) version so it can be included in any project without additional efforts or build steps.

But there is also a fair amount of popular third-party libraries that don't provide an NPM package and rely fully on being implemented via the script tag. Common examples are newsletter integrations, contact forms, and the Stripe SDK to process payments.